Hey guys, finally starting my first CYOA. My computer is FUBAR at the moment so if there are any large grammatical mistakes it's probably because of the tiny phone keyboard. I'd appreciate if you'd pointed out any errors so I can correct them later.

Darkness is one of the most primal human fears.Ending up in a dark void is fucking terrifying.

After your brain processes that there is indeed nothing around you but black expanse in all directions (what are you laying on?) you do what any sane person would, have a mental breakdown.

After a long (or is it?) period of screaming, mumbling, and shaking you finally reassert your sanity and come to a realization, you are not breathing. Your lungs are expanding and contracting but there is no air entering or leaving your mouth. All your scientific knowledge is telling you that you shouldn't be alive right now let alone conscious. As this sinks in the atmosphere around you changes, you feel a soft breeze on your skin and feel air moving in your throat.

what.

You are currently floating (laying?) In a dark void turning most of man's scientific discoveries on their head, what do you do?

1) There has to be something here, try moving around until you find something2)You can't move on until you've figured out the rules of this place, consider what other natural laws you've broken in the past few minutes3)You've got no idea what to do, ask for a sign or something4) Write-in

After mulling over your options for a bit you decide to learn all you can about the rules in this place before exploring. The most obvious illogical occurrence is the fact you seem to be laying on nothing.

You feel something hard and flat under your back but when you attempt to touch it your hand passes right through. Reaching your arm around to your back you feel your hand on your spinal cord even though you can also clearly feel that you are still lying an something.

As you study your hands in confusion the surface you are lying on suddenly takes on a cold quality like a tile floor. As you attempt to touch your back again your hand slams into something incredibly hard. Nursing your mildly bruised hand you use the new surface to lift yourself into a standing possition.

Taking a moment to look yourself over you notice that you are wearing a camouflage hoodie, a piece of clothing you own but that should be in your closet back in North Dakota. Wait, if you live in North Dakota why do you know you shouldn't be in North Dakota? The question of why you're not supposed to be in your place of residence is quickly supplanted by one of a more scientific nature. How can you see yourself if there is no source of light? As you reach for a flashlight that should be in your pocket, a corona of dull white light shoots out from behind you. As you watch the shadows of your legs shoot off into the void you slowly begin to turn around.

Sweet zombie Jesus.

A huge white figure standing a good eight feet above your own six and a half foot height meets your vision. It's face is covered by a huge purple mask showing its asymmetric seven eyes, all of which are closed. As you follow it's gigantic arm down to it's hand it appears to be gripping a pair of human legs to the "floor." This figure fills your mind with the oddly contrasting feelings of terror (a giant leaping out of the earth carrying the souls of humanity up with it) and familiarity. (why isn't she on her cross?) As you round on it's (her) hand you find that it (she) isn't just holding a pair of human legs, but a whole girl. As you study the girl another flash of familiarity shoots through your mind (she lays on the floor in nothing but what God gave her, a boy of a similar age awkwardly groping her breast) her odd pale blue hair especially seems to ring some bells. You are interrupted in your study of the mysterious girl by the familiar prickling of someone watching you. You gaze upward into a calculating seven eyed stare.

You are being stared down by an eldritch giant (the mother of humanity) choose your next action carefully.1) Raise your arms above your head non-threateningly2) Calmly state that you mean no harm3) Keep absolutely still4) NOPENOPENOPE5) Try to leverage the girl out of the giants grip6) Write-in

As you match the giant's eyes an odd urge overcomes the rational part of your mind. You hold your hands in front of your chest as if to catch something, a blue orb of light forming between them.

"Rise."

The orb begins to grow brighter, a burst of blue light illuminating your back. An image imprints itself into your mind, the giant now larger than a skyscraper being pelted by rifle fire from equally large multicolored robots. 'This is who your daughter shall be.' 'This is who she is.'

The ball of light leaves its place between your hands shooting off into the blackness as you repeat yourself at a louder volume.

"Rise!"

The orb's flight path is erratic as if it's confused, you decide to wipe all doubt from it's presumably basic thought pattern.

"RISE!"

The orb's flight path straightens out as it rushes towards the giant.

'Throughout all of space and time...The mother of man has had few heralds...'

Your final shout of

"RISE!"

Is punctuated by the orb slamming itself between the giant's top most eyes. Both your and the giant's eyes take on the orbs blue glow.

'Rei has had only one.'

"To me... MY LILITH!"

The corona of blue that has been bathing your body now also covers the giant. You feel "something" in the back of your mind, it is both young as a newborn and as old as the very stars.

Eventualy the blue glows fade away and you meet the gaze of The Mother of Humanity (How do you know that?) again.

She gives you a seven eyed blink and cocks her head to the side.

You've bonded yourself to the progenitor of humanity... or something, what now?

1) [s:2spx025n]Tail[/s:2spx025n] Blue hair feel good, you should touch it.2) If someone asks you to poke [s:2spx025n]The Stay-puft Marshmallow Man[/s:2spx025n] Lilith, you say yes!3) You've been able to pull off some crazy shit, see what else you can do.4) Maybe the ageless god-beast can answer some questions about [s:2spx025n]ancient aliens[/s:2spx025n] the mysteries of the universe.5) Write-in

After getting used to the odd feeling in the back of your head you decide to scan "Lilith" more carefully. While at first glance she appears to be made out of something comparable to marshmallow a closer look reveals that it is actually her skin's odd texture combined with it's irregular color. Looking more closely at her mask allows you to make out a triangle carved into it, it's sides overlapping most of the eye slits. The proximity gained in your examination reveals one final oddity.

Lilith is so powerful you can literally feel it in your bones.

You gotta get some of that.

Several plans come and go as you contemplate exactly how you're going to steal pure energy from something possibly older than the universe. Eventually you decide to attempt to fuse with Lilith and suppress her consciousness.

Looking back, you blame that stupid plan on dehydration and the fact you may have not had any of your brain at the time.

You charge forward, driven by power-lust and desperation, into Lilith's torso. The minimal world inside the void disappears, replaced by something more beautiful than can be described by words. Things you didn't know could even exist swirl around you, colors outside the spectrum, creatures who don't look like they could physically live, parts of space never before seen by humans. Your head starts to ache as things that man had never seen before (and was never supposed to have seen) fill your memory. Before you black out from pain, it suddenly stops and your world is filled with white.